duncans

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   by duncans 12y ago

   I think that was a different app: http://www.horizon.camera http://blog.evilwindowdog.com/post/88969373226/extreme-car-e...
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   by duncans 12y ago

   Videos used as the backdrop: http://d3eterog612le0.cloudfront.net/steady/videos/homepage/... http://d3eterog612le0.cloudfront.net/steady/videos/homepage/... http://d
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   by duncans 12y ago

   If you want people to read your email, recall it: "fred@example.com would like to recall the email 'Foo bar'" [OK] [Cancel]
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   by duncans 12y ago

   Whilst you're there, get them to stop using "cyber" too...
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   by duncans 12y ago

   I find it shows the platforms weeks in advance.
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   by duncans 12y ago

   > "it warns about lots of things ... like documenting the public methods and classes in their APIs" Only if you're switched on the Generate XML Documentation switch `/doc` (in which case I think it makes sense). Most
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   by duncans 12y ago

   > And anyone who knew web, knew Silverlight didn't have a future from the very beginning. Totally agree. In 2006/7 jQuery effectively meant that Silverlight was DOA.
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   by duncans 12y ago

   "hover dropdowns" - Nope. http://uxmovement.com/navigation/why-hover-menus-do-users-mo...
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   by duncans 12y ago

   This is Paul's job: keep developers using Chrome as their primary/default browser to ensure sites run the best they can on Chrome.
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    by duncans 13y ago

    #shit_HN_says
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    by duncans 13y ago

    I think he's talking about making the URLs readable out in the wild, e.g Twitter
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    by duncans 13y ago

    I think Sinofsky had a Steve Jobs complex.
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    by duncans 13y ago

    From my experience, much of an ASP.NET web app's start time is not so much the JIT-ing but before that, when the ASP.NET runtime compiles pages/views (aspx/cshtml etc) into *.cs then DLLs. Pre-compiling can mitigate this. L
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    by duncans 13y ago

    On http://referencesource.microsoft.com in bold "How to configure Visual Studio for debugging .NET framework" which links to http://referencesource.microsoft.com/setup.html
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    by duncans 13y ago

    Joel Spolsky has written a lot about open plan vs private offices (most of it inspired by Peopleware http://www.amazon.com/dp/0932633439 ) > Not every programmer in the world wants to work in a private office. In fac
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    by duncans 13y ago

    Who's that with?
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    by duncans 13y ago

    Your token service would authenticate users using their credentials for your system.
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    by duncans 13y ago

    They sure are: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25956284
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    by duncans 13y ago

    "No, you see, it was your identity ... they said they were you." "And you believed them?" "Yes they stole your identity." "Well, I don't know because I think I have my identity, whereas you seemed to
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    by duncans 13y ago

    I'd heard about the app being very gesture-centric, but having to do a pinch to navigate up the hierarchy is a bit tedious; means you can't operate one-handed.
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    by duncans 13y ago

    This dentist had it all figured out 3 years ago http://tumbledry.org/2011/05/12/screw_hashbangs_building Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592741
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    by duncans 13y ago

    Could probably do with turning those screenshots into an animated GIF as it took me a while to work out the flow, and that presumably each stage is persistent (I'm guessing, from the Run 0>1>2 chevrons).
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    by duncans 13y ago

    > with a 'using' you can't catch an exception [Citation needed]
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    by duncans 13y ago

    > "... he'll stop sending us stupid emails asking how to call our server-side API using jQuery or, not making this up as it's happened several times from several customers, a form on an HTML page." Have you considered
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    by duncans 13y ago

    I don't think "castrated" is the word you meant :-) Perhaps "constrained" or "restricted"
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    by duncans 13y ago

    I've been considering a switch to Office 365 and SkyDrive or even just signing us up for DropBox for Teams because Google Drive is so incredibly unintuitive.
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    by duncans 13y ago

    I'll hazard a guess that they have some dreadful ad platform that greps keywords on the site and replaces them with a mouseover popup ad.
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    by duncans 13y ago

    Also just a simple registry tweak: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10859173/how-to-disable-a...
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    by duncans 13y ago

    Same in the UK. I had two passports for a while, one for travelling to UAE, etc and another for Israel.
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    by duncans 13y ago

    Note you can extract an MSI using: msiexec /a foo.msi /qb TARGETDIR="c:\temp\bar"